🚀 go-pugleaf

dk@thumper.bellcore.com (Dan Kahn) writes:
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>need to get close to the bulb's rated current.  Not only will the bulb
>light up, it'll be a lot happier not to have been put thru the shock
                          ^^^^^^^
Actually, I don't think anyone has yet proven that light bulbs
experience happiness :-) :-)

>of the inrush surge that it experiences when placed across a stiff
>source at its rated voltage.
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>Dan Kahn      Bell Communications Research      Morristown, NJ
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But seriously, thanks for the explanation -- it's a better way to
communicate the same thought I had when I read the posting on
the ohmmeter changing the resistance of the bulb significantly
while the transistor (capable, presumably, of passing a lot more
current than the ohmmeter sources) wouldn't, in the poster's opinion,
be able to turn on the bulb because of it's cold resistance!